Long gone the 360/370 line and the POO that explained the architecture. I wonder how many programmers today have studied a architecture, or even the instruction set, of the computers they are using?

3:35 pm April 23, 2014

Dawn wrote:

I have for several generations of hardware from the IBM 704 to Intel / AMD 64 bit ones.

An even smarter move for IBM would br to but OpenVMS from HP as they really know how to leverage, sell and deploy a mission critical architecture. I often wondered at the similarity between names MVS & VMS

5:24 pm April 23, 2014

JohnB wrote:

TD:

How many stock analysts have studied the architecture and instruction set?

7:03 pm April 23, 2014

BRL... wrote:

QUOTE: In the first quarter, IBM’s hardware group reported a $660 million pretax loss, which follows a $507 million pretax loss for all of 2013.

System 360 may have made it to 50, but only because it is on life support -- burning up capital.

Years ago Fortune magazine published a list of the top 500 wealth destroying corporations.

IBM was then a close second, behind only General Motors.

I guess that tradition is still alive.

7:12 pm April 23, 2014

Rich K wrote:

TD - I have to imagine that very few know the "guts" of the system. I programmed assembly language for the 360 and after. Gives you some appreciation for the massive increase in computing power needed to support all the layers of high level code and interfaces which underpin today's internet. Gotta be some real instructions under there somewhere.

Still have my "greeen card" tucked into my bottom desk drawer ...

11:50 am April 24, 2014

Clint Sorensen wrote:

IBM is NOT a technology company! They specialize in ADVERTISING and LITIGATION, as well as peddling crummy unusable junk-ware, like IBM Notes and "DB-who?"

7:55 am May 29, 2014

Sreenivas wrote:

It was indeed a great journey for Mainframes which was predicted of it's closure almost every decade.Hope it withstands latest technologies and stays for ever.